About

Ball of Wax Audio Quarterly was founded in 2005 by Levi Fuller with the idea of shedding light on and creating a document of some of the wonderful music that was being made all around him, much of which without any fanfare, press, or radio play. The hope was that this series of compilation CDs and the release events associated with each would be a way to build community among musicians, whether local to Seattle and the Pacific Northwest or from across the United States and the world, while hopefully bringing their music to an audience that might not otherwise have stumbled upon it.

Every three months a new volume is released, featuring new music from Seattle and beyond, much of which is unreleased elsewhere. Each volume’s release is celebrated with a public performance, where the CD is available for free with the price of admission; following that, each volume is made available for purchase at a ridiculously cheap price.

Blog of Wax is an ongoing extension of this mission of bringing underexposed music to light. We will harness the power of the blog platform to bring more perspectives to the Ball of Wax experience and bring you more great music you’ve never heard of than you can handle.

Submissions:

Ball of Wax Audio Quarterly thrives on your submissions, which are encouraged from anyone (including previous contributors). We are always accepting submissions.

Submissions of any nature are encouraged, as there will be both themed and unthemed installments of Ball of Wax in the near future. The next volume of Ball of Wax (#41, Summer 2015) will have no theme. Please send music in for consideration by July 18th.

Some future themes, should you care to submit along those lines:

Vocals only. This isn’t definitely happening, but if we get enough submissions/interest it probably will. No instrument, just voices/mouth sounds. Be creative!

No English. I really want to do this one. Send in songs with vocals in any language other than English!

Please send CDs (unmastered, and as high-quality as you can muster):

Levi Fuller/Ball of Wax
P.O. Box 30712
Seattle, WA 98113-0712

You can also submit via e-mail/the internet (save a disc! and some postage!): Please use dropbox, yousendit.com, sendspace.com or a similar service to send large files to lmf@denimclature.com.

Previously unreleased materials are preferred, and covers are more than we can deal with (unless it’s either a traditional song or a song by someone you know, and you have that person’s permission).

Blog of Wax is also always on the lookout for new stuff to listen to and write about. Feel free to contact Levi or any of our individual writers with your music. Please note, though, that we are not here to regurgitate your press releases. A personal note goes a long way, and you should absolutely feel free to send us stuff whenever it tickles your fancy (“Hey, I just recorded this yesterday.”), not just because you’re “dropping a new album next Tuesday!” or what have you.